“Words are so heavy, she thought, but as the night wore on, she was able to complete eleven pages” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“There are times when silence is better than any other words in the dictionary...” — Francis Chalifour Copy Share Image
My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German. — Roy Hodgson Copy Share Image
You have my word. If you return with me, you won't be harmed. I'd die first. — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
I've got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that you'd have… — Rachel Miner Copy Share Image
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I don't place too much importance on words. It's always the last thing I do because I'm definitely more interested in mood. — Jack Tatum Copy Share Image
I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of… — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“There was only one huge world with no back to it A world like a sun One day it broke into tiny… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
People often say Beckett is difficult or bleak, but engaging with it is the most life-affirming, uplifting thing. It's his use of… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
“One danger zone is dialogue ... At the moment of ultimate showing, we writers get nervous. ... We allow characters to tell… — Tin House Books Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging. — Yami Gautam Copy Share Image
“Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“one sign of a writer’s potential is his especially sharp ear—and eye—for language.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language. — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“JavaScript is a language with more than its share of bad parts.” — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
Hula is the language of the heart, therefore, the heartbeat of the Hawai'ian people. — Kalakaua Copy Share Image
Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words. — Friedrich Frobel Copy Share Image
Directing while overcoming differences of language and culture is a stimulating challenge. — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
I've learned that my word carries weight, and that's something I have to always have to keep in mind. — Carmen Carrera Copy Share Image
Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
A person who can not read your spoken eyes, there you don't need to waste your precious words. — FARAZ Copy Share Image
